By Joan Nnenna Iwuchukwu
Abuja (Precise Post) – A high profile secret has been reveal on the recent Athlete Rep election into the board of the Handball Federation of Nigeria which took place last Monday 20th September 2021.
According to a reliable source, the HFN Scribe who acted the script was handed over the task with alleged handsome reward of cash that he couldn’t resist to play out all other contestant and eligible voters. Among the weapon the HFN secretary uses was to first bring out guidelines that will see both those eligible to contest and eligible voters been disfranchise.
One of the contestant in his comment lamented how the Secretary General disregard even a court order just because he needed to deliver the mandate due to the money bag. You can’t imagine that out of the 29 athletes that voted at the election, 20 of those players were from Lagos State handball teams leaving the 36 States including FCT with only 9 voters to spread across. Please how those that bring moral Justification to other handball players in other state and are we not laying a bad legacy by this ugly steps, he queried.
The biggest surprise was that two elections(Athlete and Technical Representative) took place that same day but has two different rules.
Many observer who witness the elections quarried that just like every other federation, HFN could have adopted the process of inviting each delegate from the 36 States of the federation including FCT to elect their Rep in respective of whether you are a national team player or not. Athlete Rep is a representative of the entire Handball Players in the Nation not only those at the National team. An observer comment.
Surprising again, by the guidelines release by HFN non of the aspirants had played 2 international championship as from 2018-2021 and to whosen the situation after two contestant had step out of the election in obedience to the Court order they were both allotted votes by the electoral committee after the elections.
While the Court order is still awaiting appropriate response from the Hon. Minister of Youths and Sports, the petitioners are willing to charge the Honourable Minister and HFN Secretary General with a Court contempt for a total disregard to the laws of our country.
